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...growing impact on global security, multiplying existing threats such as shortages of food and water. His report said that climate change could cause millions of people to migrate toward Europe as other parts of the world suffer environmental degradation. He pointed to the conflict in Darfur, migration from flood-prone Bangladesh and continued instability in the Middle East as issues that already had an environmental dimension...
...video for “Hey Ya”). “Run” features some pretty normal and—dare I say it—wholesome dancing and singing in its first half, complete with colorful 80s attire. If you’re prone to siezures, though, you shouldn’t be lulled into a false sense of security. As soon as you see the rapper’s eyes go all spiral-like and the dancers’ colorful clothes turn to black and white (which is a very cool effect, if you don?...
...public sphere. It has lost its primary purpose: to set goals, solve problems and lead the country forward. Nobody expects that Italian politics can be renewed in the arc of a single election campaign. But we have to acknowledge a plain fact: that a political system so prone to manipulation and myopia is incompatible with an advanced democracy. Is it an advanced democracy if scores of local city councils have been dissolved in recent years because they had been infiltrated by the Mafia? Or where 3,100 people have been killed by the Mob since 1992? That is more victims...
...Ebner to northern Mali or southern Algeria, the same area where the GSPC kept 31 captured European tourists hidden in 2003 until Germany allegedly paid a ransom). But because AQIM action is driven in part by the need for ransom payments, French officials hope these terrorists are less prone to committing the beheadings of valuable hostages that has become the gruesome trademark of other terrorists in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan...
There have been some 20 workshops and other exchanges and the pace and breadth of the agenda - widening to include cancer epidemiology, medical genetics, earthquakes (Iran is highly prone), and medical and bioengineering ethics - is picking up, according to the National Academy of Sciences...